Yale University hosted a virulently anti-Semitic and anti-white speaker on the second night of Passover, when Jews were celebrating the second Seder and thus couldn’t appear to protest.
Houria Bouteldja, who has reportedly insisted that Jews “cultivated Nazism” and thus implied they were responsible for the Holocaust, was invited to speak and endorsed by Yale&#8217;s flagship DEI (Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion) program: “Belonging at Yale.”
Jews “tolerated Nazism before it was inflicted on them. &#8230; They absolved it, shut their eyes to it, [and] legitimized it, because until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples. &#8230; They have cultivated that Nazism &#8230; [and hence] are responsible for it,” Bouteldja has written, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11979497/Yale-University-hosts-anti-semitic-speaker-second-night-Passover-diversity-program.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>.
In addition, she has stated, “Zionists to the Gulag,” “Killing an Israeli is killing two birds with one stone &#8211; eliminating the oppressor and oppressed,”   and “Mohamed Merah is me and I am him.”
Merah is the terrorist who <a href="https://www.counterextremism.com/extremists/mohamed-merah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot up a Jewish school</a> in March 2012 in Toulouse, France, murdering Rabbi Jonathan Sandler and Sandler’s two sons, who were three and six years old, then entered the schoolyard to shoot a seven-year old girl, Miriam, who was the daughter of the school principal; he shot and critically injured a 17-year-old boy who tried to shield  Miriam, then reportedly cornered Miriam, grabbed her by the hair and shot her in the head.
Bouteldja has mocked 9/11 victims, the London subway bombings, and the Charlie Hebdo Paris murders, writing, “Bombs explode in the subway. Towers &#8230; collapse like a house of cards. The journalists of a famous magazine are decimated. &#8230; [But] they are all white.”
In April 2021, a New York-based psychiatrist told medical students and faculty in a virtual speech for a Yale University panel discussion, “&#8217;I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. Like I did the world a f***ing favor.”
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Dr. Aruna Khilanani claimed to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/nyregion/yale-psychiatrist-aruna-khilanani.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> that her lecture had “used provocation as a tool for real engagement.” She opened her remarks by asserting that she would &#8220;say a lot of things, and it will probably provoke a lot of responses, and I want you to just maybe observe them in yourself.&#8221;
During her talk, titled, “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” she made statements like these: “This is the cost of talking to white people at all — the cost of your own life, as they suck you dry.  … There are no good apples out there. White people make my blood boil.”
After asserting, “I took some actions. I systematically white-ghosted most of my white friends, and I got rid of the couple white BIPOCs that snuck in my crew, too.”  She added, “I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. Like I did the world a f**king favor.”
Khilianani charged that white people feel bullied when confronted with the issue of race, adding, “They feel that we should be thanking them for all that they have done for us. They are confused, and so are we. We keep forgetting that directly talking about race is a waste of our breath.  … We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero, to accept responsibility. It ain&#8217;t gonna happen. They have five holes in their brain. It&#8217;s like banging your head against a brick wall. It&#8217;s just like sort of not a good idea.”
After backlash ensued from her comments, Khilianani refused to apologize, instead telling the Times that her statements had been taken out of context to “control the narrative.”
“Too much of the discourse on race is a dry, bland regurgitation of new vocabulary words with no work in the unconscious,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And, if you want to hit the unconscious, you will have to feel real negative feelings. My speaking metaphorically about my own anger was a method for people to reflect on negative feelings. To normalize negative feelings. Because if you don&#8217;t, it will turn into a violent action.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unloading-a-revolver-into-the-head-of-any-white-person-that-got-in-my-way-psychiatrist-tells-yale-audience-her-fantasies">Related: ‘Unloading A Revolver Into The Head Of Any White Person That Got In My Way’: Psychiatrist Tells Yale Audience Her Fantasies</a>

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The father of a young Jewish man who was savagely beaten in broad daylight in Times Square ripped into two New York Democrat leaders, Senator Chuck Schumer and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, for not responding when he reached out after the attack.
Barry Borgen, whose son Joey was wearing a yarmulke when he was allegedly beaten up by Waseem Awawdeh, Mahmoud Musa, Faisal Elezzi, and Mohammed Othman, addressed Nadler when he spoke on Monday at the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing regarding victims of violent crime in Manhattan.
“Mr. Nadler, you’re a Jewish New Yorker,” Borgen stated. “I called your office numerous times. I called Mr. Schumer’s office, another Jewish New Yorker, numerous times. No one called us back.”
“You’re a Jewish New Yorker,” he continued. “You have Jewish roots here. Behavior like this enables DA [Alvin] Bragg to just do whatever he wants to do. If you guys would have come out with a statement from Washington and said that we condemn the beating of Mr. Borgen’s son, we condemn this act, maybe Mr. Bragg would have taken this case a little more seriously.&#8221;
“And I call you out on it,” he said. “Most of my friends are so disheartened with you and Mr. Schumer you don’t understand. We wouldn’t vote for Mr. Schumer again &#8230; And if I lived in Manhattan I wouldn’t vote for you either. “
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Joey Borgen <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/family-of-nyc-anti-semitic-attack-victim-rips-da-alvin-bragg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recalled</a> that his attackers called him a “dirty Jew” and yelled, “F*** Israel, Hamas is going to kill all of you.”
Bragg offered a six-month plea bargain to Awawdeh, who allegedly told a jailer after the attack, “If I could do it again, I would do it again. I have no problem doing it again.”
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“It’s disgusting how Mr. Bragg calls himself a crime fighter, the man does nothing,” Barry Borgen said. “He offered people who tried to kill my son six months in jail, one guy to walk away because maybe he hit him once. It is a hate crime.”
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“[The light sentence] shows that it’s open season on anybody, be it an Asian, an African-American, Jewish, Muslim,” Barry Borgen continued. “It’s basically open season. If you can’t prosecute, put people away for a hate crime, I don’t know what else is there besides murder, God forbid. It’s just disgusting, it’s not right.”
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“I feel like I have a target on my back sometimes, but it’s getting better and better,” Joey Borgen, who sustained a concussion from the attack, said. “Hopefully the DA does their job and brings accountability and justice to everyone who deserves it.”
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A 97-year-old woman who worked at a Nazi concentration camp was convicted on Monday after undergoing a trial that lasted longer than a year. 
Between 1943 and 1945, when Irmgard Furchner was 18 and 19 years old, she <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/nazi-camp-secretary-irmgard-furchner-stutthof-germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worked</a> as a secretary for Paul-Werner Hoppe, the Stutthof concentration camp&#8217;s commandant. Because of her age at the time, she was put on trial in a juvenile court. 
Furchner was given a two-year suspended jail sentence after being found to be an accessory to the murder of 10,505 prisoners and the attempted murder of five other people.
“The promotion of these acts by the accused took place through the completion of paperwork” in the camp commander&#8217;s office, a court statement reportedly <a href="https://apnews.com/article/prisons-dceae7a28dfdee9a869bd8fe8a75c91a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “This activity was necessary for the organization of the camp and the execution of the cruel, systematic acts of killing.”
By January 1942, Stutthof was a typical concentration camp. More than 60,000 people ultimately <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/stutthof" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> there. They were either killed in gas chambers or by lethal injections, and many died from typhus epidemics.
Furchner’s trial was held in northern Germany in the town of Itzehoe. In September last year, the proceedings were delayed because she had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/30/former-nazi-concentration-camp-secretary-96-faces-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fled</a> from her nursing home. She didn’t appear in court and was later taken into custody by law enforcement and given an electronic tag. 
The trial <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/nazi-camp-secretary-irmgard-furchner-stutthof-germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> testimony from 30 survivors, as well as family members of Stutthof camp prisoners. Historians said Furchner was fully aware of prisoners being tortured and killed.
The judge, along with court authorities, went to the camp’s site and saw where Furchner would have sat and worked at the time. They found that she fully understood what was happening to people at the camp and therefore was an active participant in the atrocities.   
Furchner&#8217;s role “was necessary for the organization of the camp and the implementation of these cruel and systematic killing acts,” the court <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-nazi-camp-secretary-97-found-guilty-in-what-could-be-final-holocaust-trial-11671541582" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
She said she was sorry for what had happened and had regrets about working at the Stutthuf camp in a closing remark.
“In view of Furchner’s recent statement to the court that she ‘regretted everything,’ we were concerned that the court might accept her defense attorney’s plea for an acquittal,” Efraim Zuroff, the leading Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/prisons-dceae7a28dfdee9a869bd8fe8a75c91a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. “Yet given her claim that she had no knowledge of the murders being committed in the camp, her regret was far from convincing.”

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Two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish</a> sisters, who long outlived the Nazi regime, died 10 days apart in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alabama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama</a>.
Ruth Scheuer Siegler died on September 3 at 95 years old, just over a week after her sister Ilse Scheuer Nathan died at 98 on August 23. After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust, including the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, Siegler and Nathan moved to the U.S. to fulfill their father’s dream, eventually settling in Birmingham, Alabama, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/us/holocaust-survivors-sisters-alabama-died/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“It is with profound sadness that we share that our dear and beloved survivor and friend, Ruth Scheuer Siegler, passed away on Saturday, September 3, at the age of 95. Her passing was a mere 10 days after that of her sister, Ilse Scheuer Nathan, with whom she held a special bond both before, during, and after the Holocaust,” the Alabama Holocaust Education Center (AHEC) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AHEC.connect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a Facebook post Tuesday.
Siegler and Nathan were both born in Germany and lived there until fleeing to Holland in 1939 following Kristallnacht. Their father Jakob was arrested by Nazis five years later for refusing to remove his cap for a German officer. Instead of fleeing again, the family chose to stay together, and were all sent to a concentration camp before ending up in Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
The sisters managed to survive the death camp, but their mother, Helene, and brother died at the hands of the Nazis in the camp. Siegler and Nathan never saw their father after his arrest, but the last time he was with them, he gave them the address of a cousin who lived in America.
After Siegler and Nathan were moved to a concentration camp in Poland and Russian troops began advancing on the Nazis in 1945, the Germans forced the sisters to walk on a four-week death march with 800 other girls, <a href="http://ahecinfo.org/survivors/Nathan-ilse-scheuer/?fbclid=IwAR0cwAXP5RUG0AUtIJMcd7aWPxevtrv9Ad0N4Cha3Dqo5yKL-7jdL8Erq7U" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to AHEC. The sisters were two of the 50 to survive the march.
Siegler and Nathan were left by fleeing Nazi soldiers on the side of the road to die. They made it to a farmhouse, but to their dismay, it was occupied by SS soldiers. The soldiers soon left the sisters in the farmhouse, however, and a Russian soldier later found them and took the girls to Russian headquarters.
Eventually, Siegler and Nathan reconnected with relatives in Holland who had survived the Holocaust before moving to America in 1946 and living with their cousin in Brooklyn, New York. Both sisters married German-born Jews in 1949. Nathan moved to Birmingham with her husband that year, and her sister and brother-in-law joined her there in 1960, where the two spent the rest of their lives together with their children and grandchildren.

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The hit Netflix show “Stranger Things” shot part of its fourth season inside a Lithuanian prison infamous for its connection to murders of prisoners by Nazis and the Soviet Secret police as well as the imprisonment of Menachem Begin, later the prime minister of Israel.
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Stranger Things filmed their latest season at Lukiškės Prison — a literal Nazi concentration camp — where around 100,000 Jews were tortured and then sent to be murdered.
This in such bad taste. I’m shocked by the inhumanity. <a href="https://t.co/Lzcq9kPlAV">pic.twitter.com/Lzcq9kPlAV</a>
&mdash; Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) <a href="https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1534167593958924289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Prisoners at Lukiškės Prison in Vilnius, hundreds of them Jews in World War II, were taken from the prison and murdered.
In September 1940, the Soviet secret police arrested Begin; he was imprisoned in Lukiškės Prison for eight months.
In June 1941, the NKVD shot prisoners at Lukiškės Prison. Later, once they occupied Vilnius, the Nazis started persecuting Jews; in July 1941, German officials took 60 Jews from the prison and murdered them on Titnago Street near the Ponary forest.
“In 1941, the first people to be murdered in the Ponary massacre were 348 Jews and others who had been imprisoned at Lukiškės,” <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/stranger-things-filmed-in-lithuanian-prison-where-nazis-jailed-jews/">The Times of Israel</a> noted. “Nearly 100,000 people, mostly Jewish, would be murdered at the Ponary site near Vilnius, formerly known as Vilna, in the subsequent months.”
“The Lukiškės prison only ceased to operate as a correctional facility in 2019,” <a href="https://best-of-netflix.com/stranger-things-former-nazi-prison-airbnb/">Best of Netflix</a> reported. “The visitors that the building receives now are not the loved ones of inmates but holidaymakers with a penchant for Nazi history or indeed, Stranger Things. The prison has now been redecorated for the Stranger Things set and also transformed into an Airbnb for dark tourism. The remnant atmosphere of human torture and suffering has been glazed over with 1980s-style decor to bring the Stranger Things aesthetic.”
“If you’re worried that the Airbnb is as austere as the prison the Lukiškės represents in Stranger Things, fear not,” <a href="https://www.timeout.com/news/you-can-stay-in-the-prison-where-they-filmed-the-new-season-of-stranger-things-052622">Timeout</a> gushed. “The cell you’ll be staying in is kitted out with lots of home comforts – including plenty of ST-themed décor like 1980s-style furniture and the first season’s famed coloured fairy lights. Considering it is, y’know, a prison cell, the place is pretty damn swanky.”
“It’s been six months since the Battle of Starcourt, which brought terror and destruction to Hawkins,” a synopsis of Stranger Things&#8217; fourth season stated. “Struggling with the aftermath, our group of friends are separated for the first time – and navigating the complexities of high school hasn’t made things any easier. In this most vulnerable time, a new and horrifying supernatural threat surfaces, presenting a gruesome mystery that, if solved, might finally put an end to the horrors of the Upside Down.”
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German airline Lufthansa faced backlash on Tuesday over a statement that it released attempting to explain why a large number of Jews had been expelled from a recent flight.
Multiple Jewish organizations <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lufthansa-flight-passengers-racism-against-jewish-travelers-mask-dispute/">say</a> more than 100 Jewish passengers who had traveled from New York City to Germany last week were not allowed to board their connection to Budapest.
&#8220;The travelers say all of the identifiably Orthodox Jews were prevented from boarding a connecting flight in Frankfurt, Germany, because a group of passengers had allegedly not complied with the German national carrier’s mask regulations on the first leg of the flight,&#8221; The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/passengers-say-lufthansa-threw-all-visible-jews-off-nyc-budapest-flight/">reported</a>. &#8220;The passengers were also banned from purchasing another ticket to Budapest for 24 hours.&#8221;
A video reportedly taken by a passenger showed an alleged Lufthansa supervisor saying that “everybody has to pay for a couple,” adding, “It’s Jews coming from JFK. &#8230; It was the Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problems.”
The Jewish passengers were reportedly greeted at the gate by heavily armed police once the flight arrived in Germany.
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Rep from <a href="https://twitter.com/lufthansa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lufthansa</a> : “It was Jewish people who made the mess, Jewish people made the problem.”
Jewish customer: “Jewish people on the plane made a problem so all Jewish people are banned for the day?”
Rep: “Just from this flight.”
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The airline released the following statement on the matter:
<blockquote>On May 4, a large number of booked passengers were denied boarding on their onward flight with LH 1334 from Frankfurt to Budapest. Lufthansa regrets the circumstances surrounding the decision to exclude the affected passengers from the flight, for which Lufthansa sincerely apologizes.
While Lufthansa is still reviewing the facts and circumstances of that day, we regret that the large group was denied boarding rather than limiting it to the non-compliant guests. We apologize to all the passengers unable to travel on this flight, not only for the inconvenience, but also for the offense caused and personal impact. 
Lufthansa and its employees stand behind the goal of connecting people and cultures worldwide. Diversity and equal opportunity are core values for our company and our corporate culture. What transpired is not consistent with Lufthansa&#8217;s policies or values. We have zero tolerance for racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination of any type. We will be engaging with the affected passengers to better understand their concerns and openly discuss how we may improve our customer service.</blockquote>
The statement generated backlash online with many saying that it was weak, did not go far enough in addressing what happened, and allegedly made false statements about the incident.
Notable responses included:
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<li>Seth Mandel, The Washington Examiner: &#8220;This doesn&#8217;t actually address &#8216;the affected passengers&#8217; nor does it mention antisemitism except at the end as part of an AllLivesMatter statement. This is not, therefore, an apology&#8211;an apology being *the least* you owe those passengers. Try again.&#8221;</li>
<li>Dan Dayan, Former Consul General of Israel in New York: &#8220;Hello @lufthansa . You regret the &#8216;circumstances surrounding the decision&#8217;? Don’t you regret the decision itself? And your staff’s behavior? And their attitude and statements? This is not an apology. We expect you to do better. Not too late.&#8221;</li>
<li>Simcha Eichenstein, NYS Assembly Member: &#8220;It wasn’t a &#8216;large group&#8217;, it was individual Chasidic Jews that had nothing in common other than their religion that you blatantly discriminated against. The firsthand accounts I’ve heard are deeply disturbing. This &#8216;apology&#8217; by @lufthansa is not even worth the piece of paper.&#8221;</li>
<li>Joel M. Petlin, Superintendent of the Kiryas Joel School District: &#8220;The @lufthansa *apology* continues to perpetuate the lie that the passengers on the flight were flying as a group. The only thing they had in common was their destination &amp; their Jewish head coverings. Collective punishment is outrageous. Terminate the employees who approved it.&#8221;</li>
<li>StopAntisemitism.org: &#8220;You discriminated against Jews like your Nazi founder, Kurt Weigelt, did 80 years ago. Fire ALL of the @lufthansa employees involved and issue an apology where you actually address the group you humiliated and discriminated against because this &#8220;apology&#8221; is pathetic at best!&#8221;</li>
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A New York City museum devoted to Jewish heritage told the Jewish leaders of a group hosting Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, a fervent supporter of Israel and Jewish causes, that the governor should be disinvited from speaking or else the event was not to be held there.
Elliott Abrams, the chairman of Tikvah, and Eric Cohen, the group’s CEO, founded the Jewish Leadership Conference, an annual gathering discussing the Jewish people and Israel. They were planning to hold an event at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on June 12 at which DeSantis would speak.
“We thought it would be interesting to invite Gov. Ron DeSantis to discuss how the ‘Florida model’ has contributed to the growth and vitality of Jewish life in his state,” Abrams and Cohen wrote in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/holocaust-memorial-new-york-museum-jewish-heritage-ron-desantis-judaism-florida-cancel-culture-tivka-speech-event-aoc-censorship-11651759681?st=170f97rk8jvz6so&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
“We were working closely with the museum on the details for the June 12 event—until, out of the blue, we were told by the museum staff that Mr. DeSantis didn’t ‘align with the museum’s values and its message of inclusivity,’” Abrams and Cohen continued. “Either we disinvite the governor, they said, or our event was unwelcome.”
The authors noted, “Throughout the modern age, Jews have suffered the consequences of this kind of intolerance,” citing college campuses, the boycott, divest and sanctions movement, and the U.N., “with its odious anti-Israel Human Rights Council and with Amnesty International’s ‘apartheid state’ calumny.”
“But we know things are bad when a Jewish institution—in this case, a museum whose purpose is to keep Jewish heritage alive by remembering the Holocaust—turns on its own and tries to make a virtue of its own intolerance,” they snapped.
“When pressed for a further explanation of why our event was canceled, the museum’s CEO adopted a common form of doublespeak: We don’t do politics, he told us, whether left or right,” the authors reported.
“Not surprisingly, this was false,” they pointed out. “In August 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, then a Democratic candidate for Congress, was a featured speaker at an event at the museum, sponsored by the Immigrant Arts Coalition. &#8230; The museum has hosted other politicians, including then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio.”
The museum hosted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in April. Thomas-Greenfield “recently described America as a society plagued by white supremacy and lauded America’s re-entry into the anti-Israel Human Rights Commission,” the authors stated.
DeSantis has been an extraordinary friend to the Jews of Florida and Israel; in May 2019, DeSantis <a href="https://news.wjct.org/news/2019-05-30/in-israel-gov-desantis-signs-bill-to-curb-anti-semitism">signed a measure</a> barring anti-Semitic speech in Florida’s public schools and universities. In July 2021, DeSantis <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2021/07/22/governor-ron-desantis-calls-on-state-board-of-administration-to-place-ben-jerrys-on-the-continued-examination-companies-that-boycott-israel-list/">called on</a> the State Board of Administration (SBA) to immediately place Ben &amp; Jerry’s and Unilever on the Continued Examination Companies that Boycott Israel List and to initiate the process to place both companies on the Scrutinized Companies that Boycott Israel List.
In 2021, DeSantis <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2021/06/08/governor-ron-desantis-speaks-to-the-jewish-federations-of-florida-about-the-importance-of-stopping-antisemitism-and-supporting-israel/">secured</a> $4 million in the state budget for additional security for Jewish day schools.
Abrams and Cohen concluded, “The Jewish Leadership Conference won’t be canceled, and the governor of the state with America’s third-largest Jewish population will speak. We will hold our event as planned, at a different, secular venue. But it is sad to see that the misguided leadership of a Jewish museum won’t allow alternative ideas a seat at the Jewish table.”

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Ron DeSantis

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) slammed attempts by those on the political Left to smear him over two very small neo-Nazi gatherings that were held in Orlando and Orange County by condemning the individuals involved in the gatherings, noting Florida&#8217;s record supporting the Jewish community, and highlighting the Democratic Party&#8217;s embrace of anti-Semites.
&#8220;So what I’m going to say is these people, these Democrats who are trying to use this as some type of political issue to try to smear me as if I had something with to do that, we’re not playing their game,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;You know, some jacka**es doing this on the street. First of all, state law enforcement is going to hold them accountable because they were doing stuff on the overpass. So they’re going to absolutely do that. And they should do that.&#8221;
&#8220;But I’m not going to have people try to smear me that belong to a political party that has elevated anti-Semites to the halls of Congress like [Minnesota U.S. Rep.] Ilhan Omar, that have played footsie with the BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions] movement, that even had people in their party that have cavorted with Farrakhan,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;No, we’re going to take our record in Florida and what we’ve done, [including] sign the strongest anti-semitism bill in the country. We’ve stared down companies who were indulged in BDS like Airbnb. And we’ve won.&#8221;
&#8220;We’ve provided record funding for Jewish day schools. And we’ve had the strongest relationship between Florida and Israel than we ever had in terms of education, business, all these tremendous things that have happened since our since our state visit in 2019,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And oh, by the way, Florida is probably, maybe other than Israel, the number one destination for Orthodox Jews to move to if you look over the last two years, because we do it right because we have provided tremendous support. And that’s just what we’re going to continue to do in the state of Florida.&#8221;
DeSantis said that the attempts to smear him come from the political Left trying to distract from the numerous failures of Democratic President Joe Biden.
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<blockquote>RON DESANTIS, GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA (R): So what I’m going to say is these people, these Democrats who are trying to use this as some type of political issue to try to smear me as if I had something with to do that, we’re not playing their game.
You know, some jacka**es doing this on the street. First of all, state law enforcement is going to hold them accountable because they were doing stuff on the overpass. So they’re going to absolutely do that. And they should do that.
But I’m not going to have people try to smear me that belong to a political party that has elevated anti-Semites to the halls of Congress like [Minnesota U.S. Rep.] Ilhan Omar, that have played footsie with the BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions] movement, that even had people in their party that have cavorted with Farrakhan.
No, we’re going to take our record in Florida and what we’ve done, [including] sign the strongest antisemitism bill in the country. We’ve stared down companies who were indulged in BDS like Airbnb. And we’ve won.
We’ve provided record funding for Jewish day schools. And we’ve had the strongest relationship between Florida and Israel than we ever had in terms of education, business, all these tremendous things that have happened since our since our state visit in 2019.
And so they try to play games to try to politicize, why would they do that? Why would they want to elevate a half dozen malcontents and try to make this an issue for political gain?
Well, because they want to distract from the failure that we’ve seen with [President] Biden, and they’re all joined at the hip, all these policies, they all support in Florida 100%. The inflation that these policies have caused, that’s absolutely killing people at the gas pump, in the grocery store, making everything we do in the economy more expensive.
You look at the disaster on the southern border, people from like 100 different countries pouring into the country illegally, hundreds of thousands of people a month. They support those policies, those are bad policies.
You look at the crime throughout the country that’s really spiraling out of control because of soft-on-crime policies. We’re not going to let that happen in Florida.
But that is something that they’re tied at the hip with. You look internationally how our country’s been humiliated, how these other problems are happening, all because of the failure of leadership.
And so that is what they’re trying to avoid, is being able to be held accountable for that. So we’re not going to let them get away with these stupid things where they’re trying to smear somebody unfairly, and I will not be smeared by them and that&#8217;s just a reality. 
And oh, by the way, Florida is probably, maybe other than Israel, the number one destination for Orthodox Jews to move to if you look over the last two years, because we do it right because we have provided tremendous support. And that’s just what we’re going to continue to do in the state of Florida.</blockquote>

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tore into the Biden administration on Tuesday over the hostage situation that unfolded over the weekend at a synagogue in Texas, saying that the administration has &#8220;mishandled&#8221; the case from the start.
McCarthy&#8217;s remarks come after a 44-year-old British national held several Jews hostage at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville on Saturday and demanded that U.S. officials release a convicted Islamic terrorist who is serving an 86-year prison sentence for trying to kill Americans in Afghanistan.
&#8220;Over the past 48 hours, President Biden’s Justice Department has gone from denying the clear and religious, anti-Semitic implications of this attack to now backtracking to what we all already knew to be true,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;Now as more information becomes available, it only raises more questions.&#8221;
“The Biden administration must answer for how this case has already been mishandled, and must provide a clear strategy on how they plan to continue to investigate the outstanding terror threats,” McCarthy added.
Included in his statement was a list of five questions that he wants the administration to answer:
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<li>Why were Biden officials downplaying terrorist attacks within our borders?</li>
<li>Why did the FBI initially disregard the role anti-Semitism played in this hostage situation?</li>
<li>What indications were missed in the lead up to this attack because resources were redirected to other areas?</li>
<li>How was it that someone with an apparent criminal record and suspicious travel history was allowed into the United States to begin with?</li>
<li>What national security concerns remain? </li>
</ul>
The suspect claimed to be the brother of convicted terrorist Aafia Siddiqui and demanded her release from U.S. custody. However, it appears that the suspect <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/armed-man-takes-hostages-texas-synagogue-source/story?id=82285896">was not</a> the brother of Siddiqui.
Aafia Siddiqui is “linked to al Qaeda and was convicted in 2010 of attempting to kill Americans in Afghanistan,” Foreign Policy <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/08/26/lady-al-qaeda-the-worlds-most-wanted-woman/">reported</a>. “Siddiqui … who’s known in counterterrorism circles as ‘Lady al Qaeda,’ has been linked to 9/11 ringleader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and was once on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists list. Educated in the United States — she studied at M.I.T. and received a doctorate from Brandeis — Siddiqui was arrested in 2008 in Afghanistan carrying sodium cyanide, as well as documents describing how to make chemical weapons and dirty bombs and how to weaponize Ebola. When FBI and military officials tried to question Siddiqui, she grabbed a weapon left on the table in her interrogation room and fired upon them.”
The suspect had been identified by MI5, Britain’s counterintelligence and security agency, over concerns that it had he had been placed on a watch list as a “subject of interest.” The suspect had been banned from Blackburn Magistrates’ Court in 2001 after he was accused of telling court officials that they should have been on the planes that crashed on 9/11.
The hostages <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/18/texas-attacker-malik-faisal-akram-british-security-mi5/">escaped</a> after an 11-hour standoff which then triggered the FBI to storm the room where the suspect was before they shot and killed him.

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Google’s head of Diversity Strategy and Research wrote a 2007 blog post in which he stated Jews have an “insatiable appetite for war and killing,” adding that Israel had an “insatiable appetite for vengeful violence.”
That post was still up on his website as of Wednesday morning.
In his 2007 blog post, titled, “If I Were A Jew,” as <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/google-diversity-head-said-jews-have-insatiable-appetite-for-war/">The Washington Free Beacon</a> reported, Kamau Bobb wrote, “If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself. Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering others. My greatest torment would be that I’ve misinterpreted the identity offered by my history and transposed spiritual and human compassion with self righteous impunity.”
Bobb’s <a href="https://www.kamaubobb.com/about-1">website</a> states that he is the “Global Lead for Diversity Strategy and Research at Google and the founding Senior Director of the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing at Georgia Tech&#8221; and that he &#8220;holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Policy from Georgia Tech and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.”
“The post is likely to cast a new light on Google’s diversity strategy in the wake of demands from a group of employees that the company cancel its business contracts in Israel and publicly condemn Israel’s military defense operations in Gaza,” The Free Beacon noted.
Bobb pontificated in his <a href="https://www.kamaubobb.com/hidden-blogs/2007/12/if-i-were-a-jew">blog post</a>:
<blockquote>If I were a Jew today, my sensibilities would be tormented. I would find it increasingly difficult to reconcile the long cycles of oppression that Jewish people have endured and the insatiable appetite for vengeful violence that Israel, my homeland, has now acquired.</blockquote>
Bobb then used the anniversary of the infamous Nazi Kristallnacht attack on Jews to lecture Jews on how to behave:
<blockquote>This reconciliation would be particularly difficult now, in November, 79 years after Kristallnacht – the Night of Broken Glass. The anniversary of this dreadfully monumental day in my history would bring me pause. It would force me to reflect on the legacy of extraordinary human suffering. I might wonder how the vicious eruption of cruelty in the mid-twentieth century has influenced the shape of my identity as a Jewish person and our collective identity as Jewish people.</blockquote>
He even invoked Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and Holocaust victim Anne Frank to claim that Jews should be more compassionate:
<blockquote>During this period I might well reflect on the redemptive qualities of suffering that my people have learned through a ghastly set of lessons. I would not have to reflect alone, I could read the lessons explicitly from Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank, or Chaim Potok. I would conclude that my Jewish faith and the history of my people render me closer to human compassion; closer to the instinct to offer healing to hurt, patience to anxiety and understanding to confusion.</blockquote>
Then the attack on Israel: &#8220;I don’t know how I would reconcile that identity with the behavior of fundamentalist Jewish extremists or of Israel as a nation.”
That was followed by an attack on the Jewish people for the very belief that the land of Israel was given them by God: “My faith would lead me to believe that Israel is the homeland of my people. My intellect would convince me that it cannot be that simple.&#8221;
Bobb was heavily criticized for his anti-Semitism:
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Google’s head of diversity strategy Kamau Bobb said in a blog post titled, &quot;If I Were A Jew,&quot; &quot;If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing&quot;. Never fails, does it. <a href="https://t.co/yeuqunMPF7">https://t.co/yeuqunMPF7</a>
&mdash; Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) <a href="https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1399894176582492160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&quot;If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing“
“I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering [of] others.&quot; 
&#8211; Kamau Bobb, head of diversity at <a href="https://twitter.com/Google?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Google</a>  
🤯 How is the obscene, antisemitic bigot still employed there? <a href="https://t.co/IzXQkAzmv9">pic.twitter.com/IzXQkAzmv9</a>
&mdash; StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1400065933083877376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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I searched for &quot;antisemitism&quot; and &quot;hypocrisy&quot;. Here&#39;s what I found.
Google Diversity Head <a href="https://twitter.com/kamaubobb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kamaubobb</a> Said Jews Have ‘Insatiable Appetite for War’ <a href="https://t.co/dE7OS7Kw9Q">https://t.co/dE7OS7Kw9Q</a> 
Did <a href="https://twitter.com/Google?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Google</a> Google him?
He&#39;s not fit for this post. And there&#39;s more:
&mdash; Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldickson/status/1400014005717110784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Pro-tip: if you are going to make your career about “Diversity Strategy,” maybe don’t write gaslighting posts about how you would feel *if* you were a Jew&#8230; 🤯<a href="https://t.co/VbkPRa8bHM">https://t.co/VbkPRa8bHM</a>
&mdash; Adam Nash (@adamnash) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamnash/status/1399911809306423300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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A Jewish nurse who works at a hospital in London was reportedly left “shaken” after men allegedly confronted her in an elevator and screamed, “I want to kill all your people.”
“Hadasa Mayerfeld, a 27-year-old neonatal intensive care nurse, has worked at the hospital for four years, caring for new-born babies from a wide range of religions and ethnicities,” reported <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/nurse-wearing-magen-david-necklace-told-i-want-to-kill-all-your-people-1.517171">The Jewish Chronicle</a>. “Ms Mayerfeld was travelling in one of the hospital lifts on Tuesday when a man noticed her Magen David necklace and proceeded to shout at her.”
According to the report, “A second man in the lift, who was dressed in a religious Muslim robe, laughed along as he watched the confrontation.”
The Jewish Chronicle continued, reporting that the man in question, who is not a member of hospital staff, said, “So you don&#8217;t support a free Palestine?”
“How can someone who comes from people who kill all our innocent children get a job working here?” he reportedly continued. “I want to kill all your people, we need to kill all you people.”
“I spend hours on end caring for babies from all walks of life. Every race, every religion, every ethnicity. I care for each of them with so much love and devotion to give them all the care they need,” said Mayerfeld, who will be launching a formal complaint regarding the incident. “Even at work I need to be scared to stand up for my religion and my beliefs.”
This alleged incident of anti-Semitic hate is the latest in a string of similar events across the Western world.
In mid-May, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-the-jews-and-rape-their-daughters-time-to-understand-that-people-hate-israel-because-they-hate-jews">The Daily Wire</a> reported that “a pro-Palestinian convoy was seen traveling through North London as anti-Israel protests broke out across the United Kingdom. Adorned with Palestinian flags, the small crowd delivered revolting anti-Semitic statements with a megaphone.”
“F*** the Jews,” the “activists” <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth/status/1393989061669437444?s=21">screamed</a>. “F*** their daughters, f*** their mothers, rape their daughters.”
“Free Palestine,” they added.
Last week, “Jews were attacked in a heavily Jewish business district in New York City on Thursday night following the announcement of a ceasefire in the Middle East between Israel and Palestinian terrorists.”
“The fight in New York City occurred around the same time as a pro-Israel demonstration on Thursday in New York City that also attracted pro-Palestinian counter-protesters,” The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/jews-attacked-one-person-burned-amid-pro-palestinian-protests-in-new-york-city/">reported</a>. “It took place in the Diamond District, a midtown Manhattan street with many Jewish-owned businesses.”
Video footage showed pro-Palestinian “activists” shouting anti-Semitic abuse, such as “f***ing Zionist,” while one group <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jews-attacked-on-streets-of-new-york-city-in-restaurant-by-alleged-pro-palestinian-extremists-reports">reportedly</a> “mobbed a restaurant and spit on patrons because they were Jewish.”
That same week, “a caravan waving pro-Palestinian flags approached” a restaurant in Los Angeles, after which “[a] mob of men dressed in black then physically attacked a group of Jewish diners and others sitting outside.”
“The attackers reportedly yelled anti-Semitic slurs, threw glass objects, and asked indiscriminately, ‘Who’s Jewish?’” noted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-police-arrest-man-accused-of-attacking-jewish-men-outside-l-a-sushi-restaurant">The Daily Wire</a>.

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In recent days, Jewish Americans have been assaulted in broad daylight by supposedly “pro-Palestinian” activists. With easily-identified Jews being targeted, Aaron Keyak, an official of the Biden 2020 presidential campaign, told Jews to hide items such as kippot or Stars of David if they are fearful of falling victim to such attacks.
On Twitter, Keyak wrote, “It pains me to say this, but if you fear for your life or physical safety take off your kippah and hide your magen david. (Obviously, if you can, ask your rabbi first.)”
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It pains me to say this, but if you fear for your life or physical safety take off your kippah and hide your magen david. (Obviously, if you can, ask your rabbi first.) <a href="https://t.co/Dca2hpfY2s">https://t.co/Dca2hpfY2s</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/shirahanau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@shirahanau</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminSales?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BenjaminSales</a>
&mdash; Aaron Keyak (@akeyak) <a href="https://twitter.com/akeyak/status/1395870981995077636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Keyak added, “It’s important that those who wear kippot don’t feel more pressure to put our lives in unnecessary actual danger — especially when actions are attempting to be grounded in halacha. Given the rise in Jew hatred and antisemitic attacks, we must stand with all Jews.”
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It pains me to say this, but if you fear for your life or physical safety take off your kippah and hide your magen david. (Obviously, if you can, ask your rabbi first.) <a href="https://t.co/Dca2hpfY2s">https://t.co/Dca2hpfY2s</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/shirahanau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@shirahanau</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminSales?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BenjaminSales</a>
&mdash; Aaron Keyak (@akeyak) <a href="https://twitter.com/akeyak/status/1395870981995077636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Back in October 2020, Keyak laid the blame for another spike in anti-Semitic attacks at the feet of former President Donald Trump, saying, “We see how Trump has been remarkably weak on anti-Semitism and has endangered Jews by making us all less safe.”
“As a Jew in the United States of America, under Trump, I constantly have to look over my shoulder to see how people are looking at my yarmulke,” Keyak continued. “When do I need to cover it up in fear of my own safety?”
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As a Jew in the United States of America, under Trump, I constantly have to look over my shoulder to see how people are looking at my yarmulke. 
When do I need to cover it up in fear of my own safety? (8/14)
&mdash; Aaron Keyak (@akeyak) <a href="https://twitter.com/akeyak/status/1321851077688496130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Setting Keyak&#8217;s obvious partisanship aside regarding the change in attitude under a Democratic and Republican president, he does raise an important question: when should Jews — or, indeed, any minority — hide who they are?
Such decisions are clearly personal for each individual, based on their own set of priorities and principles, but is there an objective answer here?
It is difficult to even discuss the necessity of “hiding” one’s identity without implying some form of “victim blaming,” in which we hold some culpability for an attack which is “triggered” by our choices.
However, it’s also important to understand that such culpability exists along a spectrum of reasonable defensive action. One extreme end of this spectrum is to live in complete isolation, out of fear of any attack. The other extreme is to exhibit one’s identity while actively seeking out dangerous situations.
In the context of American Jews, the former extreme would involve a form of self-ghettoization, an unacceptable solution for any individual or group. The latter extreme would involve wearing “Jewish symbols” and marching into a meeting of Hamas operatives, another unnecessary risk (despite remaining an invalid reason for any ensuing violence).
Of course, the reality of daily life for American Jews exists between these two extremes. With that in mind, the ultimate decision becomes motivated by certain factors, defined by both religious faith and our rightful membership as part of American society.
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The principle of religious freedom in the United States includes the right to display images of one’s faith without fear of reprisal.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Public spaces should carry no increased risk for members of any given faith.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Choosing to ignore (1) or (2) accepts the premise that such threats are somehow a normal aspect of daily and civilized life.</li>
</ol>
It is one thing to remain wary of your surroundings if you are someone at risk of victimization, but it is another to fundamentally undermine your own religious rights out of fear of a collection of bigots who seek to leverage violence and fear to drive you from your own land.
Rather than accepting the premise of anti-Semitic threats on the streets of America, the Jews who decide to proudly display images of their faith should instead demand that their fellow freedom-loving Americans stand alongside them and protect our collective religious freedom, which made this wonderful country the brightest beacon of liberty in human history.
Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">@ighaworth</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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